Zombie post brought back to life after a few months of abandonment.
This morning I found myself at the bottom end of Main Mall, Gaborone without any wheels (that’s another story) and, since the weather was favourable, decided to walk home.
Gaborone is a relatively young capital city, with almost none of it having been built before the 1960s. I didn’t take any pictures in Main Mall as it was all a bit grey, in fact everything was a bit grey and a battered phone camera lens gives everything a dodgy soft-focus effect.
Government Enclave was pretty much deserted, except one hawker with a set of scales and an assortment of chest-expanders, I need to go back and see what his unique selling point is.
Continuing towards the new Central Business District you pass the Ministry of Health and Attorney General’s Chambers.
I then crossed Nelson Mandela Drive and the railway into the New Central Business District, home to more architectural wonders complete and incomplete. Some of them have been incomplete for years. I can’t bring myself to comment on the architectural, urban planning and construction achievements… draw your own conclusions.
Eventually you get to the northern end with the High Court and Three Dikgosi (Chiefs) Monument.
There was a wedding group taking pictures at the Three Dikgosi Monument, and having had my eye caught by a BMW in a used car showroom the cars associated with the group caught my eye (mainly for the wrong reasons…).
From CBD I strolled out onto Willie Seboni (a road) and up hill past the Mass Media Complex (Botswana’s equivalent to Broadcasting House), across the Western Bypass and home.
A pleasant stroll through parts of central Gaborone showing that you don’t need to drive everywhere: the slow lane can be just as interesting.
